*We give God the glory to multiply His blessings in our life.
*The moment you throw yourself in acknowledging Him, there is not limit to where He will take you.
If it is the Lord leading, He is leading you forward and not backward. He is ever leading His people forward. What shall we do? Pharaoh’s host is behind us and the Red Sea at the front? He said to them, go forward, I don’t live backward From now, going forward will be your new identity. As we keep following, He keeps changing our level. You keep following and He keeps changing your level from one realm of glory to another. God will not stop making us until we stop following Him.
Now here is it. The meek only will He guide in judgement. You already know where you are going, so go ahead and guide yourself. It takes meekness to subscribe to His leading. Matthew 5:5. The meek shall inherit the earth. That appears therefore as the key to your continuous and unending enlargement. My prayer is that this charge in addition to all that God has been speaking to you since this conference began will change your story for ever.
Beware of the Laodicean Syndrome. I’m rich I have need for nothing not knowing that you are your poor; you are wretched; and blind. If you know where God is taking you, you will know that you are nowhere yet. If you can only peep to see where God is taking you, you will know you are nowhere yet. Let me conclude this charge from:
Revelation 3:17-18
Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
God is taking you somewhere. May the eyes of understanding of everyone of us here today be opened afresh, to see the weight of glory that awaits you in God’s master plan. And may you receive grace to walk in meekness and be guided by Him all the days of your life.
Lift up your right hand everyone and give God thanks for recharging you in the race of life. Thank God for where you are, He is taking you somewhere else and you are bound to get there, you will get there.
Why This Dedication Service?
Giving God all the glory is gateway to going from glory to glory in ministry. We know that Jesus did it, and He is waiting to be acknowledged. So, this service is put together to acknowledge Him as the One behind all that we are seeing today. Psalms 127:1
Remember that by strength shall no man prevail. We are not here by reason of strength, skill or expertise. It is just the grace of election that we are celebrating. Behind the happening today is the grace of election upon His servant, working behind the scene to produce what we have today. We must therefore continue to give God the glory to preserve His blessing in our lives. Malachi 2:1-3
As you are being applauded, give glory to God so that the blessings can be preserved. The blessings of today will never know a reversal. This building will not suffer any form of mishap. Fire shall not destroy this building. Robbers shall not know the way this building is. Evil shall not penetrate here because we are handing it over to the owner and there is no rabies dog that will say who is a lion. The Lion of the tribe of Judah will be resident here permanently. Every wild beast will keep off. Every evil beast will keep off.
We must continue to give God the glory for the perfection of our blessings. Luke 27: 17-19. That leper perfected his blessing because he returned to give the glory to Jesus.
We give God the glory to multiply His blessings in our life. Jesus took the five loaves and two fishes and gave thanks and it multiplied supernaturally. Five thousand men were fed and they still got twelve baskets of remnants to show the reality of the multiplication. So where we are today is the least place that this ministry will ever be. There shall be a multiplication of His grace for impact, for enlargement in the name of Jesus Christ.
Every good and perfect gift comes from God. He does not give perfect first. He gives good first. You acknowledge Him, He upgrades it until it gets to the perfect. Every time you glorify Him, He changes your story, changes your level. And that is what you are going to be experiencing from here. Never assume it. To take God for granted is to be grounded. Never assume His blessings. Never say God knows that I give Him glory. Give Him glory genuinely, practically not theoretically. God moves you from good to very good and from very good, to excellence. He doesn’t rush it at you at a time so you don’t crash under the weight of it. He takes you level by level. How much we acknowledge Him for where we are determines where next He will take us. And how much we acknowledge Him for where we find ourselves determines where else he will take us.
My prayer is that you will never assume God’s blessings anymore. You will never assume the blessings of God as a product of your expertise or skill or strength or connection. And I can tell you, He will never stop lifting you. Simple instructions open great doors into people’s lives.
When we concluded His agenda of building The Faith Tabernacle in one year, I told our pastors that if anyone went round this building to say we built it, God will kill him. God will kill him because we had no capacity; we had no practical resources. We didn’t have the speed or the time in our hands. He just stepped in and took it all over. To now assume that we did it, you provoke His wrath.
Don’t let God catch you saying we have done something. What moves people forward is acknowledging God genuinely, heartily not for people to hear you. I still know till tomorrow that if I were not here, if I had gone to heaven, nothing happening in that ministry will drop. The One at work resides there permanently. I am only privileged to be around while He is doing it. I am not the one in charge; He is.
The moment you throw yourself in acknowledging Him, there is not limit to where He will take you. Just connect with that genuinely and tirelessly. Don’t ever at any time get somewhere where you will say we did. No! It is not save.
We are here today to give all the glory to the builder of His church, His name is Jesus Christ. Please, give Him a big hand of praise. As this sanctuary is being dedicated today, God’s presence shall ever abide here. His eyes shall ever be upon this sanctuary day and night. And His glory shall continually fill this house. Everyone that steps in here week after week will have an encounter with the Living Christ. Every unsaved soul that steps in here will find salvation. Every child of God that steps in here will have their needs met. Every member of this church will start going forward. As God is changing the story of this church, so will He be changing your own story in the name of Jesus Christ.
2 Chronicles 6:20-21
That thine eyes may be open upon this house day and night, upon the place whereof thou hast said that thou wouldest put thy name there; to hearken unto the prayer which thy servant prayeth toward this place.
Hearken therefore unto the supplications of thy servant, and of thy people Israel, which they shall make toward this place: hear thou from thy dwelling place, even from heaven; and when thou hearest, forgive.
This house shall be a house of prayer. Answers to prayer will be natural in this place. People enter here and call on God, He will answer them with fire. So shall it be.
According to scriptures, we will be anointing this sanctuary and handing it over to the One that owns it. And from this time onwards, you only have an identity, the name of the church. The One that owns it is Jesus and anyone that steps in here will find Him here.
When the mystery of the anointing was being unveiled by God, He said in Exodus 30:26-29, thou shall anoint the tabernacle and all the vessels of service. The anointing is to separate anything to God. As we anoint this place today, it is separated to God. And this altar shall remain an altar of fire. The fire of the Lord will burn every defilement. Everyone in this house will not only have impact here on Earth but also make heaven.
Shall we all rise please. Give the Lord the biggest hands of praise. Again, no assumption, let’s give the Lord praise for the provision of this beautiful facility.
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